ameron has just, shortly before 1pm today, conceded a deal over the Leveson proposals for press regulation which provides for everything that the Labour & LibDem parties were demanding. He did that, not because he believes it, but because he knew he would lose the vote and will do anything to avoid the humiliation of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Murdoch’
Leveson should not apply to the not-for-profit blogosphere
Mar 18th, 2013 by Jon Lansman.Mark Ferguson raises an important issue which has been neglected in the last minute deal-making and it is important albeit not what most politicians are currently hacked-off about — on the important question of whether the deal meets the requirement of adequate statutory backing see the Spectator or Labour List, although be warned that they [...]
Did the Sunday Times want to damage Huhne (& Pryce)?
Mar 13th, 2013 by Jon Lansman.Chris Huhne & Vicky Pryce would not be in prison today if the Sunday Times had not handed over information to the Police from a confidential source. Nick Cohen in an excellent piece at the Spectator rightly blames Isabel Oakeshott, its political editor, for breaking journalists’ first law and, he adds, their one moral principle [...]
Beware the Tory sirens
Oct 6th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.After Ed Miliband’s barnstorming performance this week, it’s hardly surprising that the Tory hacks are now searching for the next chink in the armour. ‘Ed doesn’t look like or behave like a leader’ now has to be binned. So the next complaint, always presented of course as an invitation to help him, is that he [...]
One law for the powerful and another for the rioters
Aug 17th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.James Murdoch is now bang to rights. The latest evidence just revealed, the letter dated March 2007 from Clive Goodman appealing against his sacking by News International after he admitted phone hacking in court, reinforces the already compelling evidence that there was widespread knowledge at the News of the World over 4 years ago that hacking [...]
BSkyB and the banks are still putting up two fingers to Britain
Aug 1st, 2011 by Michael Meacher.Any idea that the humiliation of Murdoch has signalled the resurgence of regulatory and parliamentary power must be given short shrift. Two events today show how little has actually changed. It is almost incredible that James Murdoch received the unanimous support of the BSkyB board for continuing as chairman when he has acknowledged a major [...]
Murdoch – it’s far from over
Mar 6th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.It was always inevitable that this Con-Dem government would let Murdoch get his way – as also of course would Blair and Brown, given their craven fawning on him over 13 years. All the stuff about ‘media plurality’, Hunt’s taking ‘careful advice’ from the regulatory authorities, Cameron risibly having to log on to his computer [...]
When Journalism Becomes ‘Churn-alism’
Sep 18th, 2010 by Mark Seddon.What future is there for journalism? Or is there a future in journalism for many of the bright young things who will have read a recent article titled ‘The Hamster Wheel’ in the journal of the Columbia School of Journalism? I attach below some of the responses from journalists who were interviewed for the project. [...]
